What determines output of 'D' in "to_char" function?

Hi,
Oracle 10.1.0.4.0 on Red Hat Linux
SQL> select to_char(sysdate,'D (DY) DD-MON-YYYY') as TODAY from DUAL;
TODAY
5 (THU) 29-MAR-2007What causes Oracle to say that Thursday is the fifth day of the week?
SQL> select NAME, VALUE from V$PARAMETER where NAME like '%nls%'
NAME                    VALUE
nls_language            AMERICAN
nls_territory           AMERICA
nls_sort
nls_date_language
nls_date_format
nls_currency
nls_numeric_characters
nls_iso_currency
nls_calendar
nls_time_format
nls_timestamp_format
nls_time_tz_format
nls_timestamp_tz_format
nls_dual_currency
nls_comp
nls_length_semantics    BYTE
nls_nchar_conv_excp     FALSE
17 rows selected.Thanks,
Avi.

For your information, this is the solution we employed:
select decode(to_char(sysdate,'DY','NLS_LANGUAGE=AMERICAN')
             ,'MON','1'
             ,'TUE','2'
             ,'WED','3'
             ,'THU','4'
             ,'FRI','5'
             ,'SAT','6'
             ,'SUN','7')
from DUALGood Luck,
Avi.

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